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Politics, Shipping, and Pirates Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck Project RESEARCH REPORT AND BULLETIN SERIES QAR-R-07-03 Proprietary North Carolina: Politics, Shipping, and Pirates Lindley S. Butler, Ph.D. August 2007 Underwater Archaeology Branch Office of State Archaeology Department of Cultural Resources State of North Carolina www.qaronline.org Cover photo: Queen Anne coin weight for 1 guinea gold coin. Recovered from site Fall 2006 Introduction In late May 1718 the citizens of Charles Town, South Carolina awoke to a frightening prospect: the pirate Blackbeard, the “Devil incarnate,” lurked off the entrance to their harbor. His powerful flotilla of four ships, crewed by hundreds of pirates, mounted over sixty guns—enough to overwhelm the few scattered Royal Navy vessels in the hemisphere. With Charles Town at his mercy, Blackbeard blockaded the harbor, plundering vessels for a week and accumulating a rich haul of cash and supplies. Closely following a long Indian war, this shocking episode reinforced the sense of helplessness the Carolina authorities felt at being beleaguered by a plague of sea wolves. Blackbeard then set a course for sparsely populated North Carolina, possibly seeking a place to careen and repair his fleet. Isolated Topsail Inlet, now Beaufort Inlet, and the village of Beaufort appeared to be an ideal location with a large but little used protected anchorage. When the flotilla arrived in early June, the three sloops easily passed through the treacherous inlet, but when the deep draft Queen Anne’s Revenge reached the bar she shuddered to a dead stop with the sails backed and the yards swinging aimlessly. Sloop Adventure slowly tacked back through the shoals to assist the flagship, but shortly Adventure too was hard aground. By the end of the day, the crew had abandoned the listing derelicts to the merciless wind and waves. Through the summer and fall the impoverished villagers salvaged what they could from the wrecks, and the vessels gradually disappeared beneath the surface, breaking up in the nor’easters and hurricanes that frequent this coast. Nearly three centuries later, in November 1996, Phil Masters and Mike Daniel of Intersal, Inc., who were seeking a Spanish treasure ship lost in 1750, found a shipwreck off Beaufort Inlet. The artifacts initially recovered from the wreck identified it as early eighteenth century, opening the possibility that it might be one of the pirate vessels. The state designated the site 31CR314. A landmark agreement between Intersal, the Maritime Research Institute, and the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources turned the wreck and its artifacts over to the state for archaeological investigation and recovery. The Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck Project was organized under the oversight of the Office of State Archaeology and the Underwater Archaeology Branch. Over the past decade the project has brought to bear on this wreck intense multi-disciplinary historical and archaeological research and scientific analysis that has produced a comprehensive portrait of this vessel and the site. The archaeological record of 31CR314 so far reveals a vessel that is approximately 90 feet in length and 200-300 tons in burden. There is evidence of three masts. So far, 25 cannon have been discovered, the largest being six-pounders. The latest dated artifact is a Swedish cannon of 1713, which provides the current terminus post quem date for the wreck—the date after which the wreck occurred. Collectively the datable artifacts span the period from 1690 through the first two decades of the QAR-R-07-03 Butler 2 eighteenth century, with a mean date of 1706. The diverse and eclectic artifact assemblage reflects a vessel that sailed on the North Atlantic trade routes from Europe to the Caribbean. Vessel Type Estimated Length Estimated Tonnage Number of Guns 3-masted 90 feet 200 - 300 25 Table 1 Beaufort Inlet Wreck 31CR314 Figure 1 Artist's illustration of Queen Anne's Revenge foundering Beaufort in 1718 was a tiny fishing village in a sparsely populated area with little trade connection to the interior. Except for an occasional sloop that might pass by, the village saw only local fishing boats. On North Carolina’s shallow waters, commerce throughout the eighteenth century was mostly carried by small vessels—shallops, periaugers, sloops, schooners, and occasional brigs. The pertinent question about the wrecked vessel at Beaufort Inlet is, what is a ship of that size doing in that place at that time? The only recorded wrecks at the inlet in the early eighteenth century are the previously mentioned pirate vessels, and the initial artifacts recovered were contemporary with those wrecks. QAR-R-07-03 Butler 3 Accordingly, the project’s working hypothesis emerged early on that this vessel might very well be Queen Anne’s Revenge. Although colonial North Carolina is accurately described as an isolated backwater frontier that generated minimal commerce, because of the offshore Gulf Stream, most of the intercolonial and trans-Atlantic merchantmen had to brush the treacherous shoals of the great capes of Fear, Lookout, and Hatteras (Stick 1952:2-3). Consequently, it has been argued that there “was too much traffic and the records of shipwrecks too sparse” to attribute the Beaufort Inlet wreck to one of the pirate vessels (Cashion 1998:3). Yet this considerable maritime shipping was normally bound not to North Carolina ports but to ports in her sister North American colonies, in Europe, or in the Caribbean. Since the Gulf Stream’s inner margin is about thirty miles offshore, the numerous north-south- bound ships were over the horizon out of sight of land. In storms, no doubt some were lost on the capes and the Outer Banks without survivors, without a trace, but it is highly unlikely that the Beaufort Inlet wreck was lost without notice. The vessel grounded just offshore in plain sight of the inlet and village, and there surely were survivors. Similar events were the 1698 grounding of HMS Swift Advice on remote Currituck Banks and the loss of El Salvador at Beaufort in 1750 (Saunders 1886-1890:4:1305). In both cases the wrecks generated considerable official correspondence, and the looting of Swift Advice by Outer Bankers led to arrests and a trial in the General Court (Parker 1963- 1971:3:191-98). The Queen Anne’s Revenge incident was recorded in official correspondence, the pirate trials at Charles Town, and the sole colonial newspaper, The Boston News-Letter. Based on Carl Swanson’s study of privateering during the wars of 1739-1748 (Swanson 1991), some researchers have claimed that the Beaufort Inlet wreck armed with over two-dozen cannon “would be average or even below strength for a merchantman in these waters during the first half of the eighteenth century” (Rodgers et al. 2005:29-30). Since the archaeological record supports the grounding of the vessel at Beaufort Inlet in the early eighteenth century, conclusions drawn from a study of mid-century wartime commerce, when ships were larger and more heavily armed, simply are not valid. The earliest extant port records of Charles Town that record armament are from 1723 – 1724 and reveal that heavily armed vessels are unusual. Measurements Ships Pinks Snows Brigs Sloops Schooners Others Total No. Vessels 35 19 5 17 34 1 0 111 Mean Tonnage 92 108 47 48 25 12 n/a 65 Mean Crew 11 10 7 8 6 5 n/a 9 Mean Guns 5 5 2 4 4 0 n/a - Table 2 Vessels Clearing Charles Town, 1724 (Clowse 1981:112) QAR-R-07-03 Butler 4 The mean number of guns carried by vessels entering Charles Town in 1724, a period of peace, is five. In the first quarter the heaviest armed vessels entering port were a 120-ton ship and a 90-ton ship, each mounting 10 guns. The remainder of the ships and pinks rated from 160 tons to 60 tons and carried from six to two guns (Public Record Office [PRO], London. Colonial Office [CO]. 5/509). It is evident that on the Carolina coast a ship the size and armament of the Beaufort Inlet wreck is unusual even at deepwater Charles Town and extremely unlikely at an obscure newly settled fishing village with no known transatlantic commerce. [See section below on Shipping: Charles Town for more detail on tonnage and armament.] Another assertion that appears to challenge the evidence of the port records is that at Charles Town in October 1718 the merchant ships Mediterranean, 24 guns, and King William, 30 guns, were “riding at anchor” (Cashion 1998:4). These notable exceptions to the lightly armed merchantmen usually found in Charles Town harbor were in fact merchant vessels that Governor Robert Johnson impressed to spearhead an attack on pirates lurking off the port. To prepare the ships for the impending battle, “on board the Mediterranean was put 24 Guns, and 30 on board the King William” (Johnson 1999[1724]: 301). The implication of putting 24 and 30 guns aboard the vessels is that prior to impressments and conversion to men-of-war, Mediterranean (100 tons) and King William (140 tons) were merchant vessels that carried no armament at all. Since there have been no studies of early eighteenth century shipping in North Carolina, conclusions about North Carolina’s maritime commerce have been drawn from the more numerous port records of the mid-century and later. It is time for a historical reality check based on primary sources that are as close to the period as we can get. It is clear from the colony’s port records of the early eighteenth century that a vessel of the size and armament of 31CR314 at Beaufort is not only an anomaly but is in fact extraordinary.
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